Jeffrey Epstein nació el 20 de enero de 1953 en Brooklyn, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Murió el 10 de agosto de 2019 en Manhattan, Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos.
Epstein implied that he had blackmail material when he told a New York Times reporter in 2018, off the record, that he had dirt on powerful people, including information about their sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.